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JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's national museum is set to display a 2,200-year-old Egyptian mummy of a man who was afflicted with some modern-day illnesses such as osteoporosis and tooth decay, the museum said on Tuesday....
HOUSTON (AP) -- A Texas judge on Tuesday dismissed the last remaining charge against two California anti-abortion activists who made undercover videos of themselves trying to buy fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood....
BERLIN (AP) -- German officials vowed tighter security and called for tougher controls of asylum-seekers Tuesday in the aftermath of four attacks in the country in the span of a week, two of which were claimed by the Islamic State extremist group....
TOKYO (AP) -- The killing of 19 people at a home for the mentally disabled raised questions about whether Japan's reputation as one of the safest countries in the world is creating a false sense of security....
SAINTE-ETIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY, France (AP) -- Two attackers took hostages inside a French church during morning Mass on Tuesday near the city of Rouen, killing an 86-year-old priest by slitting his throat before being shot and killed by police, French officials said. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Bill Clinton was once the Democrats explainer-in-chief. Tonight, he'll be explaining himself....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A glass ceiling is shattering at the Democratic National Convention as Hillary Clinton ascends to the presidential nomination with Tuesday's roll call of the states, the first woman to lead a major party into a White House race....
(Vatican Radio) “I am sure that all those young people will bring from all over the world, will bring (back) to their homes, Middle East to Africa the message of love and of courage and also of Polish hospitality.”This was the hope of the Polish Ambassador to the Holy See, Janusz Kotanski speaking about the visit of Pope Francis to Krakow for World Youth Day (27th to 31st July).Listen to Ambassador Kotanski's interview with Lydia O'Kane The Ambassador said expectations were high in Poland ahead of the Pope’s visit and he also said that following a meeting with the Holy Father, the Pope told him that he was “eager to meet with all those young people not only from Western Europe, but from Central Europe, from Eastern Europe, from Ukraine, from the Middle East from countries all over the world.”“In Poland”, said Ambassador Kotanski, “people really love Pope Francis, they don’t know him…only from TV and from some pil...
Eccl 1:2; 2:21-23; Col 3:1-5, 9-11; Lk 12:13-21The wedding of Princess Diana (Diana Spencer), in 1981, was watched by 750 million people. Her funeral in 1997 was viewed by 2.5 billion people. At her funeral, singer Elton John brought tears to the eyes of hundreds of mourners in Westminster Abbey when he sang: “Candle in the Wind.” Interestingly, this song – with the line “Goodbye, Norma Rose” – was originally written for an equally glamorous woman, Norma Jeanne, who assumed the stage name ‘Marilyn Monroe’ and died on August 5, 1962, due to an overdose of sleeping pills. Diana and Marilyn share many things in common – both were beautiful and wealthy, photographed by paparazzi worldwide, yet, unhappy in marriage, and both died tragically in August aged but 36 – young icons snuffed out like candles in the wind. Ecclesiastes gives bad news for those who base their hopes on the perishable wealth and goods of this world, echoin...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis is horrified and shocked by an attack in a church in Rouen, in northern France, where a priest was slain and another hostage was seriously wounded..A statement released by Fr Federico Lombardi, Director of the Holy See Press Office said: “we are particularly shocked because this horrible violence took place in a Church, in which God’s love is announced, with the barbarous killing of a priest and the involvement of the faithful”.Fr Lombardi also said the Pope shares the pain and the horror caused by this absurd violence and expresses firm condemnation of every form of hatred and prays for the victims. Two attackers entered the church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray during Mass on Tuesday morning, taking the elderly priest and four other people hostage before being shot dead by French police.There were no immediate details on the identity or motives of the two assailants but the investigation was handed to the anti-terrorist unit...
